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Definition of Fiascoes
1. fiasco [n] - See also: fiasco
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiascoes
Literary usage of Fiascoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Five Years of Tory Rule: A Lesson and a Warning by Alfred Robbins, Nemesis (1879)
"FAILURES, fiascoes, AND FABLES. " If you borrow your political ethics from the
ethics of the political adventurer, you may depend upon it that the whole of ..."
2. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"... having gone to war, we only come through, if we do, after a series of deplorable
fiascoes and blunders at the start,— I say that to accuse such a people ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1905)
"A study of the record of administrative incapacity and disorders which were so
glaringly illustrated by the fiascoes at Cadiz and Rochelle will bring home ..."
4. A Brief History of the Great War by Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1920)
"... from fiascoes at the Dardanelles, in Serbia, and in Mesopotamia; and millions
in India, who only wanted a favorable opportunity, would presumably ..."
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